Beat that NASA

Beat that NASA

Build Your Own Portable Trebuchet

Broderbund’s vintage papercraft software

Spotted over on Make, theres some really nice models here.

Check them out here.

Paper Models

The Folding Plug

Lets take something already in use and make it better.

The Drawing Board

We subscribe to the Free Cycle emails which drop into the inbox on a daily basis and list the items people are offering for free. Usually the items aren’t much to write home about and you soon begin to realise why they’re being given away for free but every once in a while a little gem comes along.

In this case the gem came in the form of a rather impressive architects wooden drawing board. Its quite a size, so much so that I’ve had to completely rearrange the workshop just to get the thing in.

Wind Powered Knitting Machine

I have to get one of these wind-powered knitting machines for the side of my house.

Wind-Powered Knitting Machine

Voltage

Just like modular synthesizers, people connect with each other in order to achieve diverse objectives. In Voltage, robots, half-human and half-synthesizer, powered by a huge amount of energy, connect to each other in an electric and chaotic trance. Click here to watch.

Voltage

Remembering Apollo 11

A series of photographs like you’ve never seen before. Click here.

Apollo 11 Photographs

Techlab Starring Charles Babbage

Hop on over to the BBC to see a rather impressive comic strip which explores the legacy of Charles Babbage. Take me there now!

Techlab - Charles Babbage

Little Wheel

A very cute game, brilliantly presented about a robot city. Click here to kill a few minutes.

Little Wheel